No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Ben Bernanke’s personal checking account became entangled in an elaborate identity-theft scheme after his wife Anna’s purse was stolen last August from a café. According to a District of Columbia police report, it contained her Social Security card, checkbook, credit cards and IDs.

It’s not been revealed how much money was taken, but someone started cashing checks just days after the purse was snatched.

The thefts helped fuel a probe into a ring responsible for more than $2.1 million in losses and involving at least 10 financial firms, court documents said.

At least one check from the Bernanke account for $900 was deposited Aug. 13, 2008, into the account of another identity theft victim at a Bank of America branch in Maryland.